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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2003
Applicants:
Brian Hernacki, San Carlos, CA (US);
Jeremy Bennett, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Brian Hernacki, San Carlos, CA (US);
Jeremy Bennett, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Symantac Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for analyzing security risks in a computer network. The system constructs asset relationships among a plurality of objects in the computer network and receives an event associated with a selected object, where the event has an event risk level. The system also propagates the event to objects related to the selected object if the event risk level exceeds a propagation threshold.